US Patent Issued to NuVera Medical on July 14 for "Medical tool positioning devices, systems, and methods of use and manufacture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,219, issued on July 14, was assigned to NuVera Medical Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Medical tool positioning devices, systems, and methods of use and manufacture" was invented by Colin Mixter (Santa Clara, Calif.), Marc Bitoun (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Alan Schaer (San Jose, Calif.) and Tom Saul (Moss Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Steerable medical devices that include one or more elongate shafts and a medical tool in a distal region. The medical devices include a handle portion for controlling one or more aspects of the medical device."

The patent was filed on April 27, 2020, under Application No. 17/602,362.

*For further...